Patrick M. Byrne Quotes

Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day.

Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

As I was looking around, to me, what was happening in the blockchain and crypto world was a movement.

The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates.

Belarus will become the first government in the world that opens wide opportunities for the use of blockchain technology.

Blockchain Capital was the first dedicated venture fund to invest in crypto and blockchain.

I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

I love this stuff - bitcoin, ethereum, blockchain technology - and what the future holds.

I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.

A lot of what I see in blockchain promises to get us as an industry from A to Z. As an investor and entrepreneur, I am constantly on the lookout for how we get from A to B.

What proplets do is they look to the blockchain to see who owns them; they are kind of like SIM cards today - they know where they are at.

On the blockchain, you have a public ledger, which is the form of ownership. That means you are not doing net settlement - just netting everything down, which means that everything has been turned into fungible numbers.

Blockchain is really exciting technology because it's actually providing both transparency but also agility in a contractual relationship that any organization should have.

When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.

I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.

Instead of the cashier and ticket-ripper of the movie theater, the block chain consists of thousands of computers that can process digital tickets, money, and many other fiduciary objects in digital form. Think of thousands of robots wearing green eye shades, all checking each other's accounting.

The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.

When we started ShapeShift, a future world of natively digital assets was very theoretical.

If you look at the trends, China very well could be the driver of the adoption of block chain consumer services.

t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.

The right way to think about the blockchain is that it's going to replace the entire Internet.

I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.

You'll be using digital currency. I think really what will happen is you'll use a combination of bitcoin, ether, your devices, the 'Internet of Things.' We've got billions of devices coming online.

In Seoul, there are plans to create a blockchain ecosystem to make it a city that will be recognized as the center of blockchain in the world.

Bitcoin as a globally distributed public ledger - that's the thing I'm most excited about going forward. Thinking about how to use Bitcoin in new and innovative ways. In the meantime, we have the boring uses of Bitcoin that are in the process of going mainstream.